Have you ever watched a CSGuitars video and wondered: "What's that guitar he's using?" This video provides the answer. Guitar Links: Fender Player Stratocaster - www.thomann.de/gb/fender_player_series_strat_plt_mn_acb.htm?offid=1&affid=367 Friedman Vintage T - imp.i114863.net/aqLqW PRS McCarty 594 SC - imp.i114863.net/Xbrbo Gibson Gothic Flying V - kzread.info/head/PLaM1FGKAH5TkcpKcAyK8o9H0NP1nBaoLS Harley Benton Progressive Line - www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_l1000_vb_progressive_line.htm?offid=1&affid=367 Ibanez Xiphos - reverb.grsm.io/xiphos Squier Bullet Special - reverb.grsm.io/SquierBulletSpecial CSGuitars Ash Fossil & Bloodbound - THEY'RE MINE, YOU CAN'T HAVE THEM! *Description contains affiliate links. If you click on one of them and make a purchase, I'll receive a small commission with no added cost to you* #guitar #collection #csguitars More from CSGuitars: Gain access to exclusive content at: www.patreon.com/csguitars Buy CSGuitars Merchandise - www.csguitars.co.uk/store Website - www.csguitars.co.uk Contact - colin@csguitars.co.uk

@stevenaustin4591

4 жыл бұрын

nice to see some of your guitars here. quick question - what's your opinion on Ibanez Jem7V vs Ibanez PIA? :)

@InfamouslyCantankerous

3 жыл бұрын

Hey colin. Great videos I've really enjoyed learning more about gear especially as a new player. If you get this message I was hoping you might be able to tell me what asymmetrical diode clipping is. I'm looking into getting a pedal that has this feature. I'm not sure if yo uh have covered this elsewhere but would love to know.

@dennisleighton1068

2 жыл бұрын

sorry to be so offtopic but does any of you know a tool to log back into an Instagram account..? I was dumb forgot the password. I would love any assistance you can offer me.

@kennethvivaan9534

2 жыл бұрын

@Dennis Leighton instablaster :)

@dennisleighton1068

2 жыл бұрын

@Kenneth Vivaan thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site on google and I'm trying it out atm. Takes quite some time so I will reply here later with my results.

"strings tuned so low, only elephants can hear it." me: i need that in my life CS guitars: they're mine, you can't have them! me: cries in Dm

11:20 - Has a guitar with a Floyd Rose. Doesn't dive bomb like a madman. You Colin, have mastered the art of self control.

3:03 the toxicity of Dave’s Tele 😂

Really great and versatile collection - different pickups, scale length, bridges, look and feel... I don't understand why some people have 14 goldtop Les Pauls or 21 sunburst strats. Glad to hear Aces High on the demo. Stay safe

@BigCleverName

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I never get that, I have two Stratocasters and I think that's more than enough

Honestly, Colin's is the only success story I have seen in these last 5 years on you tube. I remember almost down to the last detail how he started and look at what he has now. Incredibly this guy has not become a gear snob and that takes integrity he'll show you a super expensive PRS or Friedman and then a hot rodded Squier Bullet and a Harley Benton. He has something everybody can connect with. great video. Great channel. Mike.

"This is like the coolest guitar a teenage metalhead has ever seen." When I was a teenager, I really wanted the LTD F-400FM, the one with the tribal inlay on the fretboard. Recently, I have really been getting into buying the guitars I wanted at certain parts of my life, sort of like a visual history of my life. So, if I ever manage to find an LTD F-400FM with that tribal inlay, I am absolutely going to buy it.

@matthewkuhns7303

4 жыл бұрын

I'm 15 and currently my best guitar is my PRS SE Custom 24 and it was a limited run of spalted maple tops in vintage sunburst and for 829 bucks, its a really good guitar. I am eyeing either the CE's or the silver sky's or just even a core. The guitars are amazing and I've met Paul and he told me I had a great future ahead of me. I live about 30-45 minutes from the factory in Maryland and what they do their is amazing. My SE had some questionable cracking marks along the binding on the fretboard so I took it to an authorized dealer that's 20 minutes from the factory and it took them about 3 weeks to buff it out. I go and pick it up and my mom notices that there was a quarter sized chip on the right of the bottom strap button. Sent it back and it took them maybe a month and it doesnt even look like anything ever happened to it. The wood grain looks the same and just looks amazing. And they didnt even charge me once for both times we had to send it in. Great people at PRS! I wish I could work there when I'm older. I've been loyal and will stay loyal to PRS!

@ThatBaritoneGuitarGuy

4 жыл бұрын

I am in full agreement of you wanting to work at the Stevensville factory. As soon as you are legally-able to get a job, go for it. If you can somehow talk to Paul again, go ahead and open that line of communication. If you remember your history, Les Paul himself asked Ted McCarty (Gibson) to buy Epiphone after Epi Stathopoulo died. Later, Ted McCarty mentored a young upstart named Paul Reed Smith. Maybe you can convince Paul to mentor you. Continue the cycle, and be part of that legacy. On a side note, I remember those spalted top SEs. That was what started the "Exotic Wood Range." As beautiful as the "Exotic Wood Range" is, I must admit I have always intentionally avoided anything SE, because buying a PRS not made in Stevensville seems wrong. But who am I to talk about only buying USA-PRS, when my 2006 Fender Showmaster was Korean-made.... In any case, since you live so close to Stevensville, I would suggest taking your SE directly to them if you should ever have any more issues.

@matthewkuhns7303

4 жыл бұрын

@@ThatBaritoneGuitarGuy I know my history about Ted and what he did for Paul. I've always wanted to build instruments since I went on a tour there. I will definitely try and apply there. Paul is so innovative and a pure genius. I would love to be mentored by Paul, his story is such a good view of the American dream. The idea of getting mentored would be awesome. I would love to learn how to build a magical instrument. If they ever offered a internship program or a luthiery school or a mentorship program I would sign up immediately. I was so sad when experience 35 got canceled and I could have seen so much more and maybe even establish a connection with Paul. The attention to detail and them making perfection is amazing.

@ThatBaritoneGuitarGuy

4 жыл бұрын

@@matthewkuhns7303 Yeah. I would have signed up for Experience 35, but I live on the opposite side of the nation. As for working at PRS, if you are going to build guitars, you might as well do it for one of the crowning jewels of guitars.

@matthewkuhns7303

4 жыл бұрын

@@ThatBaritoneGuitarGuy PRS guitars are the leading guitsr manufacturers in my eyes.

May I suggest putting a pair of Collin's pickups into the Harley Benton.

@toelife2112

3 жыл бұрын

That could be possible but that would mean that he would have to convert the guitar from active to passive and that's not an easy job

@dip_doop

2 жыл бұрын

@@toelife2112 isn’t the reverse harder?

I heard that Trivium lick on the V. Love it. Lol

8:43 IN DYING DAAAAYYYYSSSS

@tw8245

4 жыл бұрын

Dude I came here to say this! Yes!

Always a joy to see a CSGuitars video pops up on the feed.

You never fail to please the heart of this 61 year old metal head. Great video and some mighty tasty pickin’ there too. Stay home and stay safe y’all! 😷🤘

I actually found you way back in the day on one of your first guitar builds! Used it as a reference while I was learning to refinish and upgrade cheap Dean's and Washburns, and I'm here to this day!

Wonderful vid, always nice to see folks talk about their collection. That Bloodbound is a thing of majesty (also, apparently I am an elephant now? Hopefully I'll stop forgetting, um... y'know, things)

Has to be the V for me. You did a splendid job on that little beauty. I have the 2018 model myself. But for the money, my Harley Benton SC Custom FR takes some beating.

U dont know how long i have been waiting for this 🤘🤘🤘🤘 And loving the new edits too

Would love to see a video about your upgrades you made on the Harley Benton.

holy shit i've been following the channel for years but somehow i never noticed how sick is the top on the bloodbound. brutal sounding too! but that i knew already

That first strat has a cool finish and I'm a bit jealous - they are great guitars! (I nearly bought the same finish, but decided I had to go for polar white on my player series one, as one of my main American strats is a Sienna burst already) Quite tempted by a harley benton as a project guitar to mod too!

Colin, your Squire bullet strat is just brutal sounding, that is an awesome guitar. Love the bloodbound guitar & your Gothic vee too 🤤🤤🤤🤤

Just recently found your channel and it's one of the best guitar channels I've come across for sure. Thanks for the content. Subscribed :)

As someone who owns a Xiphos, I was excited to see another Xiphos. You have my respect and frankly my adoration.

The PRS is my favorite by far. Great collection; elicited a dose of well-meaning envy.

The Gibson V and harley benton back to back were like night and day 🎸💥

Nice...always great to hear some classic Priest! Break that law Colin! Of coz, sweet collection of axes :)

Love this channel, love this guy. Hey Colin you make amazing content and there's never a video that you've made that I can say bored me. Cheers. Mike.

Good stuff bro !!! I love that they are all guitars that you play not because someone told you they were awesome

Truss Rod cover into a combination String Butler? BRILLIANT!!! Something EVH would have loved!

Beautiful Friend. I just bought the Fender lead iii. Love it. Love the video. Have a good day.

quality of videos going up, nice

I’m alway a sucker for matte finishes. Especially green ones but that black Les Paul shape was cool.

When that gothic V came up, both hands went into horns up formation. I couldn't stop it from happening.

I have a players edition strat that I put a '56 wiring harness in it, and a set of SD lipstick tube pickups. I love the guitar

Do you think you’ll ever go back to building guitars if you have the chance? Love this video man, keep up the awesome work!

My guitar collection: The same ibanez for 15 years. Btw your handmade sound better than anything else. Maybe those friedman cleans were a bit too perfect too. You definitely knew what you were doing, building them.

I came for the gear... I left wanting to learn to play all the riffs and licks in the video 🤟🤟🤟

I aktuelle had the Orange Squire Bullet as my first guitar and I still own it and currently modifying it. Even tho it was cheap I actually still love it.

Colin likes As Blood Runs Black?! Holy shit, when you busted out that riff it took me back to high school!

Hey Colin, Matt here, I got an Ibanez GRG121 for pretty much the same reason you got your Squire Bullet

I always wondered what that poop stain on the fret of that natural guitar was. A fossil!

I have that red burst Player Strat, it is easily my favorite guitar.

Well done Brother and thanks for sharing! Be Well All!

Cool collection!

Love an invader pickup, but scored some D- activators gonna install them on my home build.

For the HB instead of getting rid of the active peck-ups you should try Fishman Fluences! Great collection!

Love the PRS and Strat. I got a strat already but I'd like to get a Mexico one to play around with. I'd like to try out lipstick pickups in one.

The Ibanez xpt700 was my high school dream guitar

nice collection

Physics, fossils, classic sci-fi, and rock & roll. Doesn't get any better, does it?

That V is so dope! Gibson should make a signature model based on it!

That flying V is lethal🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

I still love the gothic v. The explorer and v shapes are my favs. Love what went into that build and am thinking of doing something simular to a chinese explorer copy. But instead making it into a 58' korina copy.

I actually have the same Squiar as my first guitar and I am currently building an HSS out of it.

Respect for that Aces High 🤘🤘🤘

The gothic V is the most beautiful guitar ever followed by the sexy top on that bloodbound. Gotta say though, I'm surprised that I enjoyed the PRS sound more than the others. Something to look into for sure!

I like the Friedman fret markers.

That riff at 1:29 is too sick. Please do something with it like release a song. (Admittedly getting egg on my face here if this is already a song I don't recognise.)

Okay video...was really hoping to hear them all through a metal zone... 😊

Shite Paul? I'm probably the only human alive who wants to see Shite Paul in the modern day but dammit, it's such a classic and I'd so love to see what Colin would do with such a project these days. Ah well, still a damn good video

Awesome collection, man! Awesome collection! 🤩😄 However, there's one old guitar we haven't seen in quite some time that I was curious about... whatever happened to the Shite Paul? Do you still have that ol' beast of burden kickin' around?

I’d love Colin to narrate my life lol Amazing guitar collection!

I'd love to hear some explanations about that slanted neck pickup on the ash-bodied guitar ... cause I fancy a very similar design :) some details would help me to better articulate my own vision..

That PRS is glorious. But i need to hit the lottery before i ever consider spending that much on a guitar!

NOTIFICATION SQUAAAAADDDDDD 5:34 Wait, wher di all da mids go? So nice to see CS1 and the all mighty Bloodbound again on the channel

@hazrod13

4 жыл бұрын

YEAAAAAAAAAH

The squier sounds like such a punk guitar :D

Nice job

Holy shit did you just bust out "In Dying Days"? Hell yeah dude

I have a 7 string Xiphos.... except its not an ibanez. Its a parts project I put together and finished myself. Looks good, just needs a tiny bit more work.

Hi i watched your video about how to make patch cables and i wanted to do it by myself. However i am not sure where to look for the parts. Do you have some an idea were i can get the parts?And what parts do i need to make speaker cables?

How do you get that awesome tone you have on the Bloodbound? It sounds absolutely amazing! Keep it up \m/

Hiya, great videos mate, just wondering what pedal/pedal combo you used in the Harley Benton progressive line through, thank you in advance 🤘🏻

Explorer guitar + real fossil in the neck, that's pretty badadd if you ask me

Love a p90 Tele sounds awesome

Sweet!

God you are my inspiration man, you rock 🤘

Nice video man! What was that riff you played with your Harley Benton guitar? I’ve heard it before but I can’t put my finger on it right now 😂

With the Harley Benton, even though you don't like active pick ups, have you considered EMG's 57/66 set? I'd use active pick ups just for a something different kind of sound

Well this is interesting. My favourite sound, for just "raw" guitar sound was the Harley Benton. Dunno how it sits in am ix, don't know how much I'd enjoy playing it personally, but dang. That's a nice sound. What was the signal path? The chugs have this nice almost-blowing out quality that sounds a bit fuzzy without getting out of control. At risk of sounding like a dumbass, it sounds like a slightly restrained HM-2 in the chain somewhere? Maybe? Sounds awesome.

@ScienceofLoud

4 жыл бұрын

Signal path is: Guitar>Ego Driver>Victory Kraken (Gain 2) It's the cheap active pickups that are responsible for that almost buzz saw quality, they are boosting the signal so much that the low notes are clipped into square wave, adding the HM-2 style sound. It's kind of cool for getting a real nasty 90s death metal tone, but it can't ever be tight and clear.

@xneurianx

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScienceofLoud Big blackened crust vibes! Shame it lacks versatility though.

Tata for you Colin, what governs pick up distance from the bridge, anything in particular or is it just tradition and luck of the draw?

Yo Collin what happened to that cool neck-through natural strat you once modded?

nice toybox chief. If the friedman turns up missing, it might have been me....

You startes guitar in university? Gives me some hope as i am in the same boat . Great video!

Seeing you play "In Dying Days" by As Blood Runs Black, made me happier than words can describe! Perfect fit for the Harley Benton "ESP wanna-be" too!

@nickap_ca6814

3 жыл бұрын

ESP eclipse style guitars with emg pickups scream early deathcore/metalcore

I love your videos, I wish there was more!

I remember when you used to make all guitars good times.

those harley benton guitars are sweet for the price ..... but i just cant get past the headstock.... i know its picky but i didnt pick up guitar because im well adjusted .

hey Colin what happened to your white single cut I think was an Ibanez that used to be in most of your videos

SOAD and Seven Mary Three in the same demo, take me back to 1998 please!

Hi Colin, how do you keep your guitars so clean and perfect?? You have an stunning collection!

@nooralamgir3703

3 жыл бұрын

Right? I get dust every morning

What ended up happening to the guitar with the LED killswitch (Ibanez?)?

What riffs did you play on the Harley Benton? I think i know them but i cannot day for sure

Have you ever tried a vintage Shergold Masquerader?

Does it matter if the string spacing is a bit off on that invader pickup?

lol pretty late to this video, I just wanna point out how amazing the ergonomics are of the Ibanez Xiphos XD

Something about that flying V just brings out the Megadeth in Colin

what exactly are those things attached to the headstock of the guitars?

7:20 Torn Between Scylla and Charibdys :)

Hold on, we’re the actives from the Harley Benton later used in the “teenager metal” video

The Bloodbound🤤🤤🤤

@ScienceofLoud

4 жыл бұрын

The top is something else and I can never get the camera to capture its true luster

I just realized, what happened to that jag stanh you owned?